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Do you straight your hair yourself?

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stef — Wed, 27 May 2015 03:37:10 -0000

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stef — Wed, 06 May 2015 03:40:20 -0000

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Re: Stef Lewandowski | Playfully hacking on things that matter

Ron Starc — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:12:54 -0000

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Re: Cooking For My Best Friend

steph wightman — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:25:35 -0000

This recipe was great!

Re: Stef Lewandowski | Create something every day

jamiebullock — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:52:57 -0000

Like the rockstar wannabe kid who dreams of being interviewed about his music, I dream of one day writing the "moving on to work on the stuff I believe in" blog post that you've just written. Congratulations Stef; the position you're in now is both enviable and hard-earned.

Re: Stef Lewandowski | Create something every day

stef — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:12:27 -0000

Thanks Dom!

Re: Stef Lewandowski | Create something every day

Dom Barnes — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:37:58 -0000

Congrats Stef. Moving on isn't difficult (I speak as someone who is in a fragile position and moving on would deeply impact the company) so its great that you can leave in a stable place.
All the best in your #nextbigthing

Re: Stef Lewandowski | Create something every day

Liz (rougeforever) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:11:30 -0000

Terrific post- while some of the tech went over my head I loved the idea of being able to make the tools you needed for a unique job as you went along.

Re: Hacking with GLA environmental data | Stef Lewandowski

Oliver O'Brien — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:47:40 -0000

Hi Stef, do you have a link to the source data?

Re: The moment BCCDIY started | Stef Lewandowski

James A.Cattell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:57:22 -0000

Good to end on a high with Nick Booth :-)
Fair play to Councillor Tilsley, he talks a good talk.
Although, I must say; he choice of words could have been better.

I'm a #LocalGov insider, who's worked as a Change Agent in Customer First programme,
There are many, many eyebrow raising insights and stories I could share.
But, I'm bound by the #Birmingham City Council code of conduct.

That will hopefully change, this year.

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

Alex Eisenberg — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:29:32 -0000

I installed Ad block about 3 months ago - it seems to take care of everything and it has changed my experience of the web. Now, I kind of get shocked when i use a browser with ads - they form this sort of sludgy foam around the things that you actually want to 'consume'.

I also heard on a radio show (i think Click On on R4) that there is some legislation coming into force which will stop certain cookies being stored. Just found this recent article about the matter - http://www.guardian.co.uk/t...

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

jamiebullock — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:23:23 -0000

For the benefit of people following this thread, it turns out that TACO isn't available for Safari. However, From 5.1 onwards Safari has a built in "Send Do Not Track HTTP Header" option under the "Develop" menu. This post gives an overview and some caveats: http://osxdaily.com/2011/04...

I'm going with the Safari "do not track" + Ghostery extension, and see how it goes.

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

stef — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:16:26 -0000

Yep. I also bought and installed Cookie Stumbler, which wiped out my HTML5 local storage too (sites use this for tracking too) to make my life easier, but $18/yr seemed a little steep. I moved the Ghostery notifications to bottom right and I'm finding it fascinating being able to see what people are using on various sites and how much tracking is being done. I've not seen any more of these nasty ads!

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

stef — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:14:28 -0000

Yeah. I had a chat with some of the guys at Aframe and the conclusion was that if there's a site that _really_ wants to uniquely identify you, they're going to be able to do it...

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

stef — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:13:47 -0000

I had similar. I think the blocking feature is currently "beta" - and I agree, they should find a way to show you how much info you're exposing about your browsing. I'd guess that disqus just wants to automatically log you in to make your life easier?

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

jamiebullock — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:06:19 -0000

This is really helpful. Do I take it from this that your approach was: manual cookie clear out, install TACO, Install Ghostery? Is it working well for you?

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

chrsgrrtt — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:52:39 -0000

Definitely a good start, unfortunately things can go a helluva lot deeper when you factor in the various alternative and unavoidable ways of fingerprinting. Apparently, even without considering cookies, it's possible to identify a unique user in ~94% of users with Flash and Java enabled. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fi... makes for some interesting reading on the matter.

Re: How to block behavioural adverts that follow you around while you browse | Stef Lewandowski

Robert Weeks — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:24:18 -0000

Thanks for the list Stef. Funnily enough, I installed Ghostery earlier and it stopped me commenting on here.... Disqus is one of the services blocked by default.

I clicked more info and I think what the service is missing is some sort of "privacy severity" rating. If I enable Disqus, how much of what I do is likely to be reported back? Is it just what I do on the site, or will it lead to behavioural marketing?

Re: http://sstefanocronopio.tumblr.com/post/13203742106

Major Tom — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:33:08 -0000

Yess! In the sky ! :)

Re: Some thoughts about Birmingham Creative City | Stef Lewandowski

grafs — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:00:55 -0000

Trying to successfully expolit initiatives that find harmony between creatives and suits is like trying to mix oil and water. What we need is a good detergent to start messing the chemistry up.

Re: Some thoughts about Birmingham Creative City | Stef Lewandowski

Marioncatlin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:47:20 -0000

I can identify with what you are saying Stef as I have been in a similar situation in Norwich but as one of the 'suits' working for the city council and the Capital of Culture bid team and then the City of Culture, loads of meetings about the future of Norwich as a cultural city, the knowledge economy, improving well-being, and yes the arguments have been won with councillors, embedded into the minds of the planning team, technical services, green spaces and everyone wants to be part of it.

But I certainly can think of many people such as yourself who have given time and effort, energy and thinking, freely and generously to their city. For a while. And then they feel taken for granted, blocked, inhibited or just worn out and they move on. And someone new comes along. Because most people in business, creative or not, can only give away so much time and energy before they have to get on, as you did. It is the nature of civitas, civil responsibility and some people have it and some don't.

However, as well as a suit (or dress) I am also a creative - time-served five years at art school (a proper one) fifteen years a designer and so on. But I have realised that it all has to happen, bit by bit, over and over again no matter how pointless it seems as it means that eventually progress is made and more and more people understand through osmosis. People change their views, what they do, how they do it. But for those at the front, it all becomes a bit jaded, especially when new people come along and want to start all over again. But, that is how life works and everyone thinks what they have done is new and fresh, and in a way it is.

And now I no longer work for the council, for my city and I certainly don't regret the time I have spent trying to improve things - but I am also aware that, in a city 900 years old, I have only a tiny part to play. And I will continue to do what I can to improve the place in which I live for everyone. What am I trying to say in this ramble? Probably just that all 'suits' are not just that, and they probably genuinely care.

Re: Some thoughts about Birmingham Creative City | Stef Lewandowski

star_one — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:09:55 -0000

interestingly, what's always attracted me to birmingham as a brand ever since i came here myself in 1988 is the 'fuck you - we're doing it anyway' approach; time after time i've seen the city bid for this event or that honour and be shortlisted, only for the big prize to be awarded elsewhere - and seen everything that was in the pitch for the gig be done anyway.

i come from what the media calls 'liverpool', and everything which boris johnson accused 'liverpool' of being, of wallowing in its own self-pity and hankering after former glory was right - the only person to have left liverpool and not be branded as a traitor for doing so is paul mccartney, and that's only because paul mccartney is such an integral part of the liverpool brand that it'd be pretty tricky for the city to turn on him. i *like* the pointlessness of the broad street walk of stars - i like the fact that we drop a paving stone in the name of the has-been slebs as a token of acknowledgement rather than banging on about how important we are because they have some stretched connexion to the city. i like the fact that when slebs turn up to an event - be it ozzy osbourne receiving his paving stone or the queen opening the icc / symphony hall, our city's collective response is to shrug its shoulders and wonder what the fuss is meant to be, staying at home rather than being sucked in to a non-event.

what i don't like about the city, though, is the way the 'people of the city' complain about the lack of culture which goes on, and then fail to turn up to support the culture that *is* going on - i've been writing for ten years or more about how we complain about the lack of small venues for small bands to play in, and in all the small venues which do exist for small bands to play in the only people who see those small bands are the friends and family of the bands - and more often than not, when two small bands share a bill, each band and its entourage doesn't even have the decency to stay to watch the other band. i'm sure the same phenomenon persists in other artforms, too.

so perhaps also what should be in my missing paragraph from my comment below is a comment to the effect that birmingham's 'creative community' wants the moon on a stick, but when given that moon on that stick has too much of a tendency to complain about what tree the stick was, or that 'we' have been given phobos when we actually wanted deimos?

Re: Some thoughts about Birmingham Creative City | Stef Lewandowski

Jason Hall — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:54:13 -0000

As someone who has also straddled both camps of being in amongst the suits at waaaay too many strategy meetings, forums, steering groups etc and also in amongst the creative heartbeats on the front line, there's an awful lot here that I recognise all too well.

Two things are for certain - now more than ever. First of all, if anyone is ever going to succeed at anything it will absolutely be because of that "fuck you - I'm doing it anyway" approach.

And, secondly, when or if they do succeed, irrespective of whether or not they received any support along the way, The Creative City will quickly appropriate them, pat itself on the back and say "See? Our strategy is working".